Paolini created the cover art for this edition of Eragon, which featured Saphira's eye on the cover. They immediately saw its potential and decided to publish the book through their small, home-based publishing company, Paolini International. After another year of editing, Paolini's parents saw the final manuscript. It was finished a year later, and Paolini began writing the second draft of the book. After a month of planning out the series, he started writing the draft of Eragon by hand. He began reading everything he could about the 'art of writing', and then plotted the whole Inheritance Cycle book series. At the age of 14, as a hobby, he started writing the first novel in a series of four books, but he could not get beyond a few pages because he had 'no idea' where he was going. It placed on the New York Times Children's Books Best Seller list for 121 weeks and was adapted as a feature film of the same name that was released on December 15, 2006.īackground Origins and publication Ĭhristopher Paolini started reading fantasy books when he was 10 years old. Brom, an old member of an extinct group called the Dragon Riders, teaches Eragon about 'The Ways of the Rider.'Įragon was the third-best-selling children's hardback book of 2003, and the second-best-selling paperback of 2005. When the evil King Galbatorix finds out about the egg, he sends monstrous servants to acquire it, making Eragon and Saphira flee from their hometown with a storyteller named Brom. The stone is revealed to be a dragon egg, and a dragon he later names Saphira hatches from it. The book tells the story of a farm boy named Eragon, who finds a mysterious stone in the mountains. The re-published version was released on August 26, 2003.

The book was discovered by novelist Carl Hiaasen, who brought it to the attention of Alfred A. His parents saw the final manuscript and in 2001 decided to self-publish Eragon Paolini spent a year traveling around the United States promoting the novel. After writing the first draft for a year, Paolini spent a second year rewriting and fleshing out the story and characters. Paolini, born in 1983, began writing the novel after graduating from home school at the age of fifteen. Copies sold: 24.55 million Įragon is the first book in The Inheritance Cycle by American fantasy writer Christopher Paolini.

Eragon book series